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5 Amazing Facts About Black Holes By NASA

According To NASA, Black holes are among the most mysterious cosmic objects, much studied but not fully understood. These objects aren’t really holes. They’re huge concentrations of matter packed into very tiny spaces. A black hole is so dense that gravity just beneath its surface, the event horizon, is strong enough that nothing – not even light – can escape. Check out some amazing Facts about Black holes given by NASA

 

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1. The nearest known black hole, Gaia BH1, is about 1,500 light-years away.

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2. The most distant black hole detected is at the center of the galaxy QSO J0313-1806, approximately 13 billion light-years away.

 

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3. The most massive black hole observed, TON 618, has a mass 66 billion times that of the Sun.

 

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4. The lightest-known black hole has a mass 3.8 times that of the Sun and is part of a binary system with a star.

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5. All black holes spin, with the fastest-known, GRS 1915+105, rotating at over 1,000 times per second. 

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